PostDoc Discussion Forum

Hi Sllona,

I am in the same spot. I am a research group of one and my supervisor isn't that helpful. I can't give you any advice on how to find collaborators but you can still socialise with other PhD students. I was fortunate enough to become friends with a few PhD students in another research group and became an unofficial member ( they invited me to their Christmas Meal). I understand that lockdown has made socialising a lot more difficult but I know my university is hosting coffee mornings for postgraduate everyday that could be useful.

Also, I know lockdown is difficult for this but conferences are amazing. Personally I prefer internal postgraduate conferences or early career researcher conferences. The few PhD students in my field at other unis that I know well were all because I went to the pub with them at a conference. Unfortunately conferences are the by far the best way to collaborate with other unis but online conferences are not that great.

With the current lockdown, I am just focusing on managing my mental health with the assumption that I can network/socialise after coronavirus.

I understand that you are frustrated but everyone is in the same boat. I don't think finding like minded PhD students is easy.

Although we could start a postgraduate forum discord channel?

Is anyone else interetsed?